It doesn’t matter if you’re a poc, believing in only 2 genders is still racist.
I will say that some third genders in cultures are transphobic, homophobic, and/or intersexist. But that doesn’t mean they didn’t play a big part in the culture.
The reason it’s racist is because by believing in only 2 genders you are actively erasing people of colors genders.
Some people still choose to identify as those genders to this day, because it’s a huge part of their culture. I’m jewish, and I’d consider myself an androgynos. Just because it was something that in the past was used to alienate gnc people, doesn’t mean it’s not something that can be reclaimed and celebrated.
Not being a muslim means you are erasing a poc’s religion
STOP IT
PLEASE STOP IT
YOU EVEN STRAIGHT UP ADMITTED THAT THIRD GENDERS CAN BE HOMOPHOBIC/TRANSPHOBIC
WHERE I LIVE IN INDIA HIJRAS ARE TREATED AS LESS THAN DIRT AND HAVE NO RIGHTS
MOST OF THEM ARE FORCED TO IDENTIFY AS HIJRA EVEN THOUGH THEY’RE ACTUALLY MEN/WOMEN BECAUSE PEOPLE THINK IF YOU DON’T HAVE A WORKING PENIS YOU’RE NOT A REAL MAN
HIJRA ISN’T A SEPARATE GENDER IT’S AN IDENTITY PEOPLE ARE FORCED INTO BECAUSE OF OUTDATED IDEAS ON MANHOOD
RESEARCH HOW THESE PEOPLE ARE TREATED BEFORE SAYING IT CAN BE CELEBRATED FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
Like I said, not all third genders are good. I don’t know that much about hijras and I never claimed to.
You literally said that not believing in third genders makes you a racist EVEN IF YOU ARE POC
You don’t understand why the concept of third gender is so offensive to most POC LGBT people, and are calling them bigots for rightfully being outraged at forced labels.
No matter what culture you’re from it’s NOT something to celebrate at all. Gender binary is not a western idea and to say so is insulting.
Forced labels are bad. Embracing labels is good. I know people who willingfully identify as third genders that have been considered oppressive in the past to sort of reclaim it.
I’m still critical of the genders in Judaism and how they were treated in the past. I don’t just praise all third genders.
And uh the gender binary is a very western/colonial idea.
Also, any gender can be forced onto people. The label of “woman” can be forced on a trans man or vice versa. Doesn’t mean the label of man or woman is inherently oppressive on its own, although it can be.
I am bi and POC living in India where I see first hand how transgenders are treated and I’m literally telling you why third genders are offensive but you’re putting fingers in your ears.
Gender binary is the reason why third genders existed. Because if you behaved this way you were a “freak” and “not really Male/female.” It is not something to be proud of. Transgender people and NB people in my part of India are called Ali or Number 9 and those terms are INSULTING. Being neither Male nor female is considered an INSULT.
Only after the research about gender dysphoria and surgery came out with regards to trans women did treatment get better. Thanks to your so called “colonial” concepts (in reality science) transgender rights actually made progress here.
When we still believed in “third gender” however transgenders were pretty much jokes of society and in many ways they still are treated like that because people still don’t have awareness.
Don’t tell me what is western and what isn’t.
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